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(NOModelI) 6 D. C. WE'ED & F. ATKIN.

GULTIVATOR PLOW.

No. 606,609. Pa-ten'edvJun'e 28, 1898.A

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UNITED STATES( PATENT OFFICE.

DEWITT C. WEED AND FREDRIOA'IKIN, OF VIOKERY, OHIO, ASSIGNORS OFONE-THIRD 'IO SAMUEL M. SMART, OF SAME PLACE.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters APatent No. 606,609, dated June28, 1898.

` Application filed January 4, 189i?. Serial No. 665,547. (No model.)

To au whom t may con/cern,.-

Be it known that we,"DEw1rr C. WEED and FREDRIC ATKIN, citizens of .the.United States, residing at `Vickery, Vin the'county of Sandusky andState of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inOultivator-Plowsyand vwe do declare the follow-V ing to be a full,clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame, lreference beinghad to the accompanying drawings, and to theletters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of thisspecification.

This invention relates to improvements in plows, and more particularlyto the class of plows known as cultivators, and has for its object theproduction of a drag plow or cultivator wherein the'shovels orcutter-shovels are of peculiar shape and may be adj usted by raising orlowering to any height and in which the saidcutter-shovels are set atsuch an angle to the moving direction of the plow or cultivator that thedirt will be properly furrowed'- and roots and other matter readilysevered by the cutter-shovels as they pass through the ground.

The invention further consists in the novel arrangementand combinationof the several parts of the device hereinafter described,illus trated inthe drawings, and more particularly pointed out in the claims hereuntoappended.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of the device partlybroken away to show the arrangement of the shovels. Fig. 2 is a bottomplan View of the cultivator, showing the angle at which the saidcuttershovels are set; and Fig. 3 shows details of construction.

Similar letters indicate corresponding parts in all the figures. v

Referring to the drawings by letter, V indicates aV- shaped frame'having a brace or cross-piece A therein. This frame V hassecured upon`its'npper side the handles a a, which are joined Yby-the rung a andbraced at the rear of said 'frame by the supports o2 a2. In the frontend of said frameB is a gagewheel B, adj ustably secured thereinbyscrewl threads ,or otherwise, so that it can be raised or loweredvertically at will.

g O isa' hook secured to the front end of said kfra, rneV,to whichthemoving power is attached.

D isa metallicposthaving on the lower end thereof, integral therewith,and set at about `right angles thereto a cutter-shovel D.

cutter-shovel D has a arin g shape, as shown, and has its forward edgesharpened to cut ,roots and other things with which it comes -intocontact. D2 is a bracket secured to the piece A in the frame V and isprovided with an oset therein for receiving and holding the said post Dsecurely and firmly in the said frame.

d is a brace-rod secured at one end. to the front of the frame Vandvatthe other upon the post D at apoint d', and serves the purposeof holdingthe said post rigid when the cultivator is in use. The front of the postD,

between the point d2 and the cutter-shovel D',

is sharpened to form a cutter D2, as shown.

E E are cutter-shovels secured to the rear part of the frame V, on thesides thereof, as shown, and are braced thereto by brace-rods E E. Thesecutter-shovels E E are of peculiar shape and are formed by taking apiece ofv iron or steel and bendingit to the shape shown in thedrawings, the portion e thereof being the vertical or supporting portionand the part e' the cutterfshoveh This portion e is set at about rightangles to the upright portionand thrown slightly vback and the frontedgethereof sharpened to form a cutter. The part e is provided withanumber of openings c c c for the purpose of permitting a verticaladjustment of the said shovels and also to af- "ford a means wherebythey may be braced The A roots, the., will be readily severed instead ofdragged along, as is the case where these cutter-shovels are at rightangles to the direction of the plow. By this construction the plow isnot only easier to run, but performs its work to much better advantage.lt is apparent from the construction of this device that it maybe usedto great advantage as a sodcutter, as the cutters may be set so as tocut the sod any thickness desired and of proper width.

Having thus described our invention, we claiml. In a cultivator of thecharacter described the combination of the V-shaped frame provided withsuitable handles, with a cutterpost secured to the middle of said vframeand having on its lower end at right angles thereto a cutter-shovel, andon the rear of said frame the cuttenshovels E, E, having the cuthisFREDRIG ATKIN.

mark XVitnesses:

MAGGIE KEEFE, JouN J. LEHMANN.

